Featured Articles — December 7, 2008

December 7, 2008 by Jonathan Movroydis | Filed Under Featured Articles 

Interesting Takes from Home and Abroad:

India Is a Key Ally in the War on Terror By Douglas J. Feith
Obama has a chance to build on sound Bush diplomacy.

The Humanities Move Off Campus By Victor Davis Hanson
As the classical university unravels, students seek knowledge and know-how elsewhere.

The End of the End of the Revolution By Roger Cohen
ON MY FIRST DAY IN HAVANA I wandered down to the Malecón, the world’s most haunting urban seafront promenade. A norte was blustering, sending breakers crashing over the stone dike built in 1901 under short-lived American rule. Bright explosions of spray unfurled onto the sidewalk.

Where to Draw the Bailout Line? By Lawrence Kudlow
The bailout-nation saga continued this week as the little-three carmakers from Detroit drove to Washington to plead for a $34 billion federal package to save themselves from bankruptcy and insolvency. Hot on their heels was a devastating report of 533,000 lost jobs in November. Actually, it’s a loss of 732,000 jobs, including downward revisions from the prior two months. Unemployment moved up to 6.7 percent from 6.5 percent, a number that’s going to get worse as the volume of discouraged workers continues to rise.

World, Don’t You Worry By Howard Fineman
Barack Obama is busy burnishing America’s most important brand.

This Wasn’t Quite the Change We Pictured By David Corn
The more things change, the more they stay . . . well, you know. And looking at President-elect Barack Obama’s top appointments, it’s easy to wonder whether convention has triumphed over change — and centrists over progressives.

Mandate for What? by Noemie Emery
Obama has good reason to make the left gnash their teeth.

What do the financial crisis and US Middle East policy have in common By Martin Kramer
Behind the financial crisis was a well-practiced mechanism for concealing risk. The risk was there, and it was constantly growing, but it could be disguised, repackaged and renamed, so that in the end it seemed to have disappeared. Much of the debate about foreign policy in the United States is conducted in the same manner: Policymakers and pundits, to get what they want, conceal the risks.

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